'Familiarity' definitions:
Definition of 'familiarity'
From: WordNet
noun
Personal knowledge or information about someone or something [syn: acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancy]
noun
Usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known [ant: strangeness, unfamiliarity]
noun
Close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" [syn: familiarity, intimacy, closeness]
noun
A casual manner [syn: casualness, familiarity]
noun
Definition of 'Familiarity'
From: GCIDE
- Familiarity \Fa*mil`iar"i*ty\, n.; pl. Familiarities. [OE. familarite, F. familiarit['e]fr. L. faniliaritas. See Familiar.]
- 1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties.
- Syn: Acquaintance; fellowship; affability; intimacy. See Acquaintance. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'familiarity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acquaintance,
- affability,
- affinity,
- amiability,
- assumption,
- awareness,
- Bohemianism,
- boldness,
- casualness,
- chumminess,
- civility,
- closeness,
- clubbability,
- clubbishness,
- clubbism,
- cognition,
- cognizance,
- common touch,
- communicativeness,
- companionability,
- compatibility,
- comprehension,
- congeniality,
- cordiality,
- corpus,
- courtesy,
- data,
- datum,
- ease,
- easiness,
- easygoingness,
- experience,
- expertise,
- facts,
- factual base,
- fellowship,
- folksiness,
- fondness for society,
- friendliness,
- geniality,
- graciousness,
- grasp,
- gregariousness,
- homeliness,
- homeyness,
- hospitality,
- hubris,
- impertinence,
- imposition,
- impropriety,
- impudence,
- informality,
- informalness,
- information,
- inseparableness,
- insolence,
- intelligence,
- intimacy,
- intimate acquaintance,
- inwardness,
- irregularity,
- ken,
- know-how,
- knowing,
- knowledge,
- lawlessness,
- liberties,
- liberty abused,
- license,
- licentiousness,
- looseness,
- mateyness,
- naturalness,
- nearness,
- offhandedness,
- openness,
- palliness,
- plainness,
- practical knowledge,
- presumption,
- presumptuousness,
- private knowledge,
- privity,
- ratio cognoscendi,
- relaxedness,
- self-knowledge,
- simplicity,
- sociability,
- sociableness,
- social grace,
- sociality,
- special affinity,
- technic,
- technics,
- technique,
- unaffectedness,
- unceremoniousness,
- unconstrainedness,
- unconstraint,
- unconventionality,
- understanding,
- undue liberty,
- unpretentiousness,
- urbanity